Remember when 911s were tricky to drive? Of course Porsche’s rear engine masterpiece came with a reputation for being difficult almost from new, sufficiently so for Porsche to feel the…
By Lee McKenzie Until Sunday, the Monaco Grand Prix weekend had been pretty straightforward. Rain on Thursday brought a splash of excitement, but qualifying went as expected and it looked…
Juan Pablo Montoya drove a superb race on Sunday to score his second Indy 500 victory and his first with Roger Penske’s all-powerful team. Montoya thus wrote himself into the…
Whatever you are doing, drop it right now and plan your visit to the Italian Grand Prix because there may never be another MotoGP race like it. Ride your bike,…
The much-heralded switch to a 1000bhp Formula 1 for 2017 is essentially dead. At a recent meeting of engine manufacturers it was agreed that they would not be supporting such…
The month of May has arrived which means it’s Indy 500 time. Practice gets underway this week with qualifying next weekend. IndyCar has run five races so far, all on…
In the April 2014 issue of Motor Sport, we printed our 11-point ‘manifesto for change’. With the Grand Prix Drivers' Association launching a fans' survey over the Monaco Grand Prix…
Jim Smith had had a sheltered 1940s-50s upbringing on the remote New South Wales dairy farm run by his Methodist parents. He seldom went anywhere else other than to the…
The FIA technical directive issued during the Barcelona weekend, regarding fuel flow, targeted a practice believed to have been used by Ferrari in the first four races of the season…
As moments go it was one of the more surreal of recent times. It was 1.00am and I was sitting in a fold-up chair in a pit garage, clad in…
By Oliver Gavin I always welcome back-to-back race weekends and I’ve certainly racked up a few air miles over the last month, with two visits to California punctuated by a…
By Lee McKenzie As you drive towards the circuit in Barcelona on Thursday, everything comes flooding back. You count the number of times you've been to the Circuit de Catalunya,…
Continuing the Jaguar theme on our classified spotlights, this week we turn our attention from D-type to E-type. The Jaguar focus is appropriate, given that the marque celebrates its 80th…
Main image: IMS Roger Penske’s four Dallara-Chevrolets – driven by three-time Indy 500 winner Hélio Castroneves, 2000 winner Juan Pablo Montoya, defending IndyCar champion Will Power and team newcomer Simon…
That was prime Jorge Lorenzo: grab the holeshot, then lay down the law, so there's no gunfight at the end. Perhaps there would've been a shootout in the final laps…
I only know one politician and we were chums long before he felt the call of his party. He is, at least as I write in this election week, the…
